However, I believe Brandon was trying to get the permutations of size 3, rather than combinations. Dylan provided a solution including repeats. Here's one without:
> library(gtools) > permutations(5, 3, LETTERS[1:5]) [,1] [,2] [,3] [1,] "A" "B" "C" [2,] "A" "B" "D" [3,] "A" "B" "E" [4,] "A" "C" "B" [5,] "A" "C" "D" [6,] "A" "C" "E" [7,] "A" "D" "B" [8,] "A" "D" "C" [9,] "A" "D" "E" [10,] "A" "E" "B" [11,] "A" "E" "C" [12,] "A" "E" "D" [13,] "B" "A" "C" [14,] "B" "A" "D" [15,] "B" "A" "E" [16,] "B" "C" "A" [17,] "B" "C" "D" [18,] "B" "C" "E" [19,] "B" "D" "A" [20,] "B" "D" "C" [21,] "B" "D" "E" [22,] "B" "E" "A" [23,] "B" "E" "C" [24,] "B" "E" "D" [25,] "C" "A" "B" [26,] "C" "A" "D" [27,] "C" "A" "E" [28,] "C" "B" "A" [29,] "C" "B" "D" [30,] "C" "B" "E" [31,] "C" "D" "A" [32,] "C" "D" "B" [33,] "C" "D" "E" [34,] "C" "E" "A" [35,] "C" "E" "B" [36,] "C" "E" "D" [37,] "D" "A" "B" [38,] "D" "A" "C" [39,] "D" "A" "E" [40,] "D" "B" "A" [41,] "D" "B" "C" [42,] "D" "B" "E" [43,] "D" "C" "A" [44,] "D" "C" "B" [45,] "D" "C" "E" [46,] "D" "E" "A" [47,] "D" "E" "B" [48,] "D" "E" "C" [49,] "E" "A" "B" [50,] "E" "A" "C" [51,] "E" "A" "D" [52,] "E" "B" "A" [53,] "E" "B" "C" [54,] "E" "B" "D" [55,] "E" "C" "A" [56,] "E" "C" "B" [57,] "E" "C" "D" [58,] "E" "D" "A" [59,] "E" "D" "B" [60,] "E" "D" "C" Kingsford Jones On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 9:41 PM, G. Jay Kerns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Brandon, > > On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 10:46 PM, Dylan Beaudette > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 7:42 PM, philozine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Dear all: >>> >>> This is one of those "should be easy" problems that I'm having great >>> difficulty solving. I have a vector containing ID codes, and I need to >>> generate a 3-column matrix that contains all possible combinations of three. >>> >>> For example, my ID vector looks like this: >>> A >>> B >>> C >>> D >>> E >>> >>> I need to generate a matrix that looks like this: >>> A B C >>> A B D >>> A B E >>> A C B >>> A C D >>> A C E >>> A D B >>> A D C >>> A D E >> >> Hi, >> >> Does this do what you want? >> >> expand.grid(letters[1:5], letters[1:5], letters[1:5]) >> >> >> D >> > > > Have a look at urnsamples() in the prob package. > > ID <- LETTERS[1:5] > urnsamples(ID, size = 3, replace = FALSE, ordered = FALSE) > > Best, > Jay > > > > > *************************************************** > G. Jay Kerns, Ph.D. > Associate Professor > Department of Mathematics & Statistics > Youngstown State University > Youngstown, OH 44555-0002 USA > Office: 1035 Cushwa Hall > Phone: (330) 941-3310 Office (voice mail) > -3302 Department > -3170 FAX > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.cc.ysu.edu/~gjkerns/ > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.